#cisco Routing

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[thesoftboiledegg]

I've been waiting for a Rick and Space Beth episode for a long time. Rick's dynamic with Beth has been underplayed in the past few seasons, and despite their narrative potential, he and Space Beth rarely interact.

Until Valkyrick, anyway. I was a little worried that this episode would have a B-plot that would take us away from the Rick and Space Beth action, but nope--the writers gave us 20 minutes of pure father/space daughter bonding time.

This episode was a little too action-packed to explore their issues in depth, but it touched on various elements of their dynamic--resentment, frustration, attachment, camaraderie--and showed that they're not that different in the end, which Space Beth isn't too happy about. Rick, of course, relishes it.

Including Bird Person and Bird Daughter was a masterstroke, too. Bird Person's the only friend who can relate to Rick's challenges as the girl dad of a violent assassin, and I loved seeing them bond after their rift in season five. Plus, Bird Daughter is endlessly entertaining. She's loud, feisty and ready to tear insects limb from limb, just like her human counterpart.

Characterization definitely carried this episode, because the plot itself wasn't the greatest. The supersoldier concept has been done a million times (Space Beth jokes about this, but the episode takes that route anyway), and the doctor was a generic raving madman.

"Ultromflomites, attack! Behold, the Gromflomites of the future! Soon we will reign again!" I mean...really? Rick and Morty's creativity is part of the reason it captured the zeitgeist in 2015-2017, and with only ten episodes per season, I feel like the writers could've come up with something better than ChatGPT-level dialogue.

The ending was super abrupt, too. When the end credits music started playing, I thought "...wait, it's over?" This episode could've used a scene of Rick and Space Beth returning home to wrap everything up.

Also, this isn't necessarily a criticism, but season six onwards tends to feel less like a comedy and more like a drama with some light humor. Dan Harmon was smart to step back and hire new writers, especially now that the show has been renewed up to season twelve, but I do think the show lost most of its crackling wit.

On a positive note, the Cisco plot was a clever twist on the "I know a guy" trope. I wish we could've actually seen Rick and Space Beth hanging out and eating together.

Hearing Stephen Root's voice was also a pleasant surprise. I grew up watching King of the Hill, and with the Hulu revival only a few months away, Bill Dauterive was a fun addition to Rick and Morty. The script gave him the best lines, especially "No, my pen rolled into the corner."

Getting back to the characters: Rick finally going into Dad Mode for Space Beth was great. It's clear that he cares from the beginning--immediately agreeing to pick her up ("Of course, just like that. You're my daughter, probably"), trying to get her employer to see her value, joining her on her mission so that she doesn't get in trouble.

But Space Beth's infection gets both of them to drop the mask. He calls her "sweetie," and she desperately cries "Dad?" when he enters the tank to infect himself. And a few seconds later: "Oh shit! Sorry, Beth! Daddy's coming!" Not long after, Rick admits to Bird Person that he's trying to be a decent father.

And Rick shows pride in Bird Daughter, too. It's probably safe to assume that he sees his own little girl in her.

Then the finale that we all saw coming: Rick crying Beth's name and brutalizing the Gromflomite who assaults her. Space Beth probably tells herself that she has some grudging respect for Rick now, but I think it's more than that. She knows that Rick sees her as his daughter, not a nuisance that he sent into space to get out of trouble.

Plus, the show tends to portray her as a snarky badass, so I enjoyed seeing her goofy and vulnerable side. We see her crack jokes, complain about slang, deal with workplace drama and groan loudly at the agony of having to call her father for help. She's Beth Sanchez through and through, and after four seasons, she's finally getting the attention she deserves.

[codingquill]

Network switches

What’s a network switch ?

A switch is a device used in computer networks to connect multiple devices together within a single local area network (LAN). Its main role is to facilitate communication between different connected devices, such as computers, printers, servers, IP phones, etc.

It is a mini-computer which is made up of RAM, ROM, flash RAM, NVRAM, a microprocessor, connectivity ports and even an operating system.

RAM

RAM (Random Access Memory) contains the current configuration of the switch and temporarily stores the MAC address table, which is then processed by the microprocessor.

Microprocessor

The microprocessor is the heart of the switch, responsible for data processing, including switching and creating links between multiple devices.

External memories

External memories, such as flash RAM, ROM, and NVRAM (Non-Volatile RAM), store configuration files , different versions of the IOS , etc ...

Ports

The switch ports are the communication interfaces of the switch. There are several of them, generally 24 for a Cisco switch. Each port is associated with an LED which indicates its status and activity.

How does it work ?

Now how does a switch work to transfer information from one machine to another?

Suppose we have 4 machines: A, B, C and D connected to our switch in ports 1, 2, 3 and 4 as follows:

The switch only works with MAC addresses , so basically we have an empty MAC address table stored in RAM as soon as the switch starts up which looks like this : 

Transmitting data from machine A to machine B happens in the following steps:

Machine A sends a frame to machine B

Once this frame arrives at port 1 (which is the one linked to A), the switch reads the source MAC address and stores it in the MAC address table

The switch reads the destination MAC address and looks for it in the table, if it is not in the table, it broadcasts to all the active machines connected to the switch except the source one.

If the port linked to the machine we want is active, it sends a response frame from which the switch reads the MAC address we were looking for (@B)

Once done, it records the MAC address of B in the table.

This process repeats until the switch reaches what is called "MAC address table stability", that is to say it knows all the MAC addresses of the connected machines and has no more need to broadcast.

Starting and configuring a switch

When it comes to booting a switch, the process is similar to that of a traditional computer system:

POST (Power-On Self Test): The switch performs proper functioning tests on all hardware.

Loading IOS (Internetwork Operating System): The switch operating system is loaded.

Loading the configuration. At this stage we have two cases:

Either the switch already has a startup configuration defined and stored in NVRAM

Either the switch is blank and it is up to us to define the startup configuration when it goes to setup mode

Switch configuration

The configuration of a switch is done through different modes, such as user mode, privileged mode and global configuration mode, which allows access to specific configuration modes, such as interface mode, routing mode, line mode, etc.

And to do all this of course you must first connect the switch with the machine via the console cable and open a terminal emulator

💡 It should be noted that the only machine that can configure the switch is the one connected to it by a console cable, the others are only hosts.

[vexic929]

Child in Time

Chapter 15

Warnings: none

Chapter 1: link

Previous chapter: link

"Run that back," Dr. Wells said, jabbing a finger at the screen. "Right there. Try to freeze it right about-"

Cisco obligingly reversed the feed, jabbing his finger down on the keyboard a moment too late to capture the figure cloaked in red lightning.

"-now," Dr. Wells finished with a sigh.

"Sorry," Cisco murmured, winding the footage back once more. "This guy is almost too fast to catch, even with state of the art cameras. We'll be lucky to get a few usable frames from this but I'm still not sure how much good it will do. I mean, the guy's wearing a cowl." 

Dr. Wells rubbed one temple, trying to ease the starburst of pain that had settled behind one eye since Hartley's reappearance. "I have every faith in your abilities, Cisco. Try again."

Cisco bit back a grimace and obliged. He missed twice more before finally pressing the keys at the exact second. The scarlet lightning still backlit the Reverse Flash's head, casting most of his profile into shadow. The cowl and suit hid what the shadows couldn't.

Except for the pale, upturned face of the infant in his arms.

"Great, so now we can see he went all Goblin King on Eo, which we already knew, only I'm betting it's not David Bowie under that mask."

"No," Dr. Wells agreed, "likely not. Save that image, it may still reveal something to us that we've missed."

Cisco nodded, saving the still and enhancing the contrast, revealing the blurred figure of Hartley falling in the background. Cisco snorted. "Graceful."

"If you're both done validating my truthfulness," Hartley drawled, entering the Cortex to the great displeasure of both Cisco and Dr. Wells. "Maybe we can actually start working so I can leave this hell-hole."

Dr. Wells closed his eyes for a moment, sighing through his nose. "I assure you, Hartley, this work is just as important."

"I'm sure," Hartley replied, leaning against the wall with arms crossed loosely in front of his chest, blue eyes glittering sharply behind his glasses. "All this time wasted chasing a blurry frame. I thought the baby was the priority. But, no, by all means, let's squint at shadows."

"If you have something more productive to offer," Wells said, turning slightly, "by all means."

"Gladly once you give me my gauntlets back. This 'Man in Yellow' is faster than your Flash - by quite a bit if Ramon's calculations are reliable. You need someone who can level the field. Once I isolate his frequency, I can disrupt his molecular rhythm long enough for your empty-headed golden boy to retrieve his baby."

Cisco shot him an incredulous look. "This isn't Chalmun's Cantina, Hartley, we're not giving you the chance to shoot first."

Hartley sighed as though being involved in this conversation physically pained him. "Still as juvenile as I remember, Cisco. I see you haven't evolved at all since we saw each other last. Disappointing but..." Hartley shot a pointed look at Cisco's shirt which read 'T-Rex also hates push-ups'. "I can't say I'm surprised."

"I know you're more than capable of finding his frequency without your gauntlets," Dr. Wells said, interrupting the argument before it could escalate.

Hartley scowled at Dr. Wells. "Obviously. The gauntlets would expedite the process. But sure, let's take the scenic route - I'm certain the Reverse Flash won't mind."

"Perhaps Cisco could help speed up the process to make up the difference." Dr. Wells offered Hartley a smile that didn't reach his eyes. Hartley averted his gaze.

"I'll get to the answer faster without distractions," he said.

"I'll try not to distract you with my charm and good looks then," Cisco drawled.

"Play nicely, boys," Dr. Wells said with a half-smile before wheeling backward. "I'll take the time to look over what Cisco managed to capture from the security feed."

"Can't guarantee I won't strangle him as a favor to others," Cisco muttered.

Dr. Wells could feel the heat of Hartley's gaze on his back as he wheeled away. It tingled just on the edge of pain, sharp and hot like a bite from something small. Irritating. Persistent.

Distractions. Always distractions.

He had the intense urge to run, letting the tension sing through his body as streaks of lightning, instead of the doubt making his stomach churn. Only resolve kept him in the chair and that resolve served him well when Caitlin rounded the corner, eyes wide and glassy with tears. She didn't throw her arms around him - though she clearly wanted to. Her hands wrung together instead.

"Dr. Wells, I-I'm so sorry. This is all my fault. I stepped away for a second and I-" Her voice broke, a tear escaping down her cheek. "I shouldn't have. There's no excuse. This is-"

"Something that no one could have predicted," Dr. Wells said, reaching out to squeeze blood back into her icy fingertips. "I would have been just as helpless as you if I'd been watching Eo. The Reverse Flash is a speedster, Caitlin. He was always going to be faster."

Caitlin nodded, wiping the tear off of her cheek hurriedly.

"I think Cisco could use your help with Hartley," Dr. Wells added gently, nodding back toward the Cortex. "Why don't you go offer your expertise?"

Caitlin agreed, looking grateful for something to do, and Dr. Wells waited until the click of her heels disappeared into the room before he continued on. He didn't waste any more time.

Harrison wheeled into the Time Vault and paused just long enough to scrub his face with both hands before standing.

"Good evening, Dr. Wells."

"Could be better, Gideon." Eobard commented as he approached the dais. "Bring up the image Cisco saved."

"Certainly, Doctor," Gideon replied. A moment later, her holographic face was replaced by the still.

"Isolate the Reverse Flash and enhance to life-size."

Hartley, the Cortex, and Eo all disappeared from view, giving Eobard a clear view of the Reverse Flash. He stepped forward, brow furrowed.

Eobard had studied his own body from every angle, every iteration, every time remnant he'd left behind from the first time he'd worn the suit in his early 20s til now as Harrison Wells. He knew precisely how his muscles shifted when he ran, knew the exact way his form moved with the yellow suit, the way Eobard Thawne wore his speed.

This man...wasn't wearing it right.

"Who are you?" Eobard whispered.

Because, if he was certain of nothing else, he knew this man, this Reverse Flash, was not him.

[treethymes]

With the exceptions of North Korea and Cuba, the communist world has merged onto the capitalist highway in a couple different ways during the twenty-first century. As you’ve read, free-trade imperialism and its cheap agricultural imports pushed farmers into the cities and into factory work, lowering the global price of manufacturing labor and glutting the world market with stuff. Forward-thinking states such as China and Vietnam invested in high-value-added production capacity and managed labor organizing, luring links from the global electronics supply chain and jump-starting capital investment. Combined with capital’s hesitancy to invest in North Atlantic production facilities, as well as a disinclination toward state-led investment in the region, Asian top-down planning erased much of the West’s technological edge. If two workers can do a single job, and one worker costs less, both in wages and state support, why pick the expensive one? Foxconn’s 2017 plan to build a U.S. taxpayer–subsidized $10 billion flat-panel display factory in Wisconsin was trumpeted by the president, but it was a fiasco that produced zero screens. The future cost of labor looks to be capped somewhere below the wage levels many people have enjoyed, and not just in the West.

The left-wing economist Joan Robinson used to tell a joke about poverty and investment, something to the effect of: The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalists is not being exploited by capitalists. It’s a cruel truism about the unipolar world, but shouldn’t second place count for something? When the Soviet project came to an end, in the early 1990s, the country had completed world history’s biggest, fastest modernization project, and that didn’t just disappear. Recall that Cisco was hyped to announce its buyout of the Evil Empire’s supercomputer team. Why wasn’t capitalist Russia able to, well, capitalize? You’re already familiar with one of the reasons: The United States absorbed a lot of human capital originally financed by the Soviet people. American immigration policy was based on draining technical talent in particular from the Second World. Sergey Brin is the best-known person in the Moscow-to-Palo-Alto pipeline, but he’s not the only one.

Look at the economic composition of China and Russia in the wake of Soviet dissolution: Both were headed toward capitalist social relations, but they took two different routes. The Russian transition happened rapidly. The state sold off public assets right away, and the natural monopolies such as telecommunications and energy were divided among a small number of skilled and connected businessmen, a category of guys lacking in a country that frowned on such characters but that grew in Gorbachev’s liberalizing perestroika era. Within five years, the country sold off an incredible 35 percent of its national wealth. Russia’s richest ended the century with a full counterrevolutionary reversal of their fortunes, propelling their income share above what it was before the Bolsheviks took over. To accomplish this, the country’s new capitalists fleeced the most vulnerable half of their society. “Over the 1989–2016 period, the top 1 percent captured more than two-thirds of the total growth in Russia,” found an international group of scholars, “while the bottom 50 percent actually saw a decline in its income.” Increases in energy prices encouraged the growth of an extractionist petro-centered economy. Blood-covered, teary, and writhing, infant Russian capital crowded into the gas and oil sectors. The small circle of oligarchs privatized unemployed KGB-trained killers to run “security,” and gangsters dominated politics at the local and national levels. They installed a not particularly well-known functionary—a former head of the new intelligence service FSB who also worked on the privatization of government assets—as president in a surprise move on the first day of the year 2000. He became the gangster in chief.

Vladimir Putin’s first term coincided with the energy boom, and billionaires gobbled up a ludicrous share of growth. If any individual oligarch got too big for his britches, Putin was not beyond imposing serious consequences. He reinserted the state into the natural monopolies, this time in collaboration with loyal capitalists, and his stranglehold on power remains tight for now, despite the outstandingly uneven distribution of growth. Between 1980 and 2015, the Russian top 1 percent grew its income an impressive 6.2 percent per year, but the top .001 percent has maintained a growth rate of 17 percent over the same period. To invest these profits, the Russian billionaires parked their money in real estate, bidding up housing prices, and stashed a large amount of their wealth offshore. Reinvestment in Russian production was not a priority—why go through the hassle when there were easier ways to keep getting richer?

While Russia grew billionaires instead of output, China saw a path to have both. As in the case of Terry Gou, the Chinese Communist Party tempered its transition by incorporating steadily increasing amounts of foreign direct investment through Hong Kong and Taiwan, picking partners and expanding outward from the special economic zones. State support for education and infrastructure combined with low wages to make the mainland too attractive to resist. (Russia’s population is stagnant, while China’s has grown quickly.) China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, in 2001, gave investors more confidence. Meanwhile, strong capital controls kept the country out of the offshore trap, and state development priorities took precedence over extraction and get-rich-quick schemes. Chinese private wealth was rechanneled into domestic financial assets—equity and bonds or other loan instruments—at a much higher rate than it was in Russia. The result has been a sustained high level of annual output growth compared to the rest of the world, the type that involves putting up an iPhone City in a matter of months. As it has everywhere else, that growth has been skewed: only an average of 4.5 percent for the bottom half of earners in the 1978–2015 period compared to more than 10 percent for the top .001 percent. But this ratio of just over 2–1 is incomparable to Russia’s 17–.5 ration during the same period.

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, certain trends have been more or less unavoidable. The rich have gotten richer relative to the poor and working class—in Russia, in China, in the United States, and pretty much anywhere else you want to look. Capital has piled into property markets, driving up the cost of housing everywhere people want to live, especially in higher-wage cities and especially in the world’s financial centers. Capitalist and communist countries alike have disgorged public assets into private pockets. But by maintaining a level of control over the process and slowing its tendencies, the People’s Republic of China has built a massive and expanding postindustrial manufacturing base.

It’s important to understand both of these patterns as part of the same global system rather than as two opposed regimes. One might imagine, based on what I’ve written so far, that the Chinese model is useful, albeit perhaps threatening, in the long term for American tech companies while the Russian model is irrelevant. Some commentators have phrased this as the dilemma of middle-wage countries on the global market: Wages in China are going to be higher than wages in Russia because wages in Russia used to be higher than wages in China. But Russia’s counterrevolutionary hyper-bifurcation has been useful for Silicon Valley as well; they are two sides of the same coin. Think about it this way: If you’re a Russian billionaire in the first decades of the twenty-first century looking to invest a bunch of money you pulled out of the ground, where’s the best place you could put it? The answer is Palo Alto.

Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto

[justforbooks]

House of Huawei by Eva Dou

A fascinating insight into a Chinese telecoms giant and its detractors

Huawei is not exactly a household name. If you’ve heard of it, you either follow the smartphone market closely – it is the main China-based manufacturer of high-end phones – or else consume a lot of news, because the company is at the centre of an ongoing US-China trade war.

But this enormous business is one of the world’s biggest producers of behind-the-scenes equipment that enables fibre broadband, 4G and 5G phone networks. Its hardware is inside communications systems across the world.

That has prompted alarm from US lawmakers of both parties, who accuse Huawei of acting as an agent for China’s government and using its technology for espionage. The company insists it merely complies with the local laws wherever it operates, just like its US rivals. Nevertheless, its equipment has been ripped out of infrastructure in the UK at the behest of the government, its execs and staffers have been arrested across the world, and it has been pilloried for its involvement in China’s oppression of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.

Into this murky world of allegation and counter-allegation comes the veteran telecoms reporter Eva Dou. Her book chronicles the history of Huawei since its inception, as well as the lives of founder Ren Zhengfei and his family, starting with the dramatic 2019 arrest of his daughter Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer, at the behest of US authorities.

Dou’s command of her subject is indisputable and her book is meticulous and determinedly even-handed. House of Huawei reveals much, but never speculates or grandstands – leaving that to the politicians of all stripes for whom hyperbole about Huawei comes more easily.

At its core, this book is the history of a large, successful business. That doesn’t mean it’s boring, though: there’s the story of efforts to haul 5G equipment above Everest base camp in order to broadcast the Beijing Olympics torch relay. We hear about the early efforts of Ren and his team, working around the clock in stiflingly hot offices, to make analogue telephone network switches capable of routing up to 10,000 calls; and gain insights into the near-impossible political dance a company must perform in order to operate worldwide without falling foul of the changing desires of China’s ruling Communist party.

Dou makes us better equipped to consider questions including: is this a regular company, or an extension of the Chinese state? How safe should other countries feel about using Huawei equipment? Is China’s exploitation of its technology sector really that different to the way the US authorities exploited Google, Facebook and others, as revealed by Edward Snowden?

Early in Huawei’s history, Ren appeared to give the game away in remarks to the then general secretary of the Communist party. “A country without its own program-controlled switches is like one without an army,” he argued, making the case for why the authorities should support his company’s growth. “Its software must be held in the hands of the Chinese government.”

But for each damning event, there is another that introduces doubt. The book reveals an arrangement from when Huawei operated in the UK that gave GCHQ unprecedented access to its source code and operations centre. US intelligence agencies seemed as able to exploit Huawei equipment for surveillance purposes as China’s. While Huawei’s equipment was certainly used to monitor Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, it was hardware from the US company Cisco that made China’s so-called Great Firewall possible.

Anyone hoping for definitive answers will not find them here, but the journey is far from wasted. The intricate reporting of Huawei, in all its ambiguity and complexity, sheds much light on the murky nature of modern geopolitics. The people who shout loudest about Huawei don’t know more than anyone else about it. Eva Dou does.

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[janjanenrico]

Cisco's First Prototype Grandecho from the past

Luzon Cisco Transport Inc. 101

Bus builder: Hino Motors Philippines Corporation Model: Hino RK/HMPC Grandecho Coach Transmission: Manual Area of operation: Provincial operation Fare type: Air conditioned Chassis No.: RK1JST Engine No.: JO8C Country of origin: The Philippines Route: Cabanatuan City Nueva Ecija - Cubao Quezon City

CTTO: Wristwatch collector

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[joanhermann]

The Role of CCNP in Multi-Cloud Networking

We live in a time where everything is connected—our phones, laptops, TVs, watches, even our refrigerators. But have you ever wondered how all this connection actually works? Behind the scenes, there are large computer networks that make this possible. Now, take it one step further and imagine companies using not just one but many cloud services—like Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure—all at the same time. This is called multi-cloud networking. And to manage this kind of advanced setup, skilled professionals are needed. That’s where CCNP comes in.

Let’s break this down in a very simple way so that even a school student can understand it.

What Is Multi-Cloud Networking?

Imagine you’re at a school event. You have food coming from one stall, water from another, and sweets from a third. Now, imagine someone needs to manage everything—make sure food is hot, water is cool, and sweets arrive on time. That manager is like a multi-cloud network engineer. Instead of food stalls, though, they're managing cloud services.

So, multi-cloud networking means using different cloud platforms to store data, run apps, or provide services—and making sure all these platforms work together without any confusion or delay.

So, Where Does CCNP Fit In?

CCNP, which stands for Cisco Certified Network Professional, teaches you how to build, manage, and protect networks at a professional level. If CCNA is the beginner level, CCNP is the next big step.

When we say someone has completed CCNP training, it means they’ve learned advanced networking skills—skills that are super important for multi-cloud setups. Whether it’s connecting a company’s private network to cloud services or making sure all their apps work smoothly between AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, a CCNP-certified person can do it.

Why Is CCNP Important for Multi-Cloud?

Here are a few simple reasons why CCNP plays a big role in this new world of multi-cloud networking:

Connecting Different Platforms: Each cloud service is like a different language. CCNP helps you understand how to make them talk to each other.

Security and Safety: In multi-cloud networks, data moves in many directions. CCNP-certified professionals learn how to keep that data safe.

Speed and Performance: If apps run slowly, users get frustrated. CCNP training teaches you how to make networks fast and efficient.

Troubleshooting Problems: When something breaks in a multi-cloud system, it can be tricky to fix. With CCNP skills, you’ll know how to find the issue and solve it quickly.

What You Learn in CCNP That Helps in Multi-Cloud

Let’s look at some topics covered in CCNP certification that directly help with multi-cloud work:

Routing and Switching: This means directing traffic between different networks smoothly, which is needed in a multi-cloud setup.

Network Automation: You learn how to make systems work automatically, which is super helpful when managing multiple clouds.

Security: You’re trained to spot and stop threats, even if they come from different cloud platforms.

Virtual Networking: Since cloud networks are often virtual (not physical wires and cables), CCNP teaches you how to work with them too.

Can I Learn CCNP Online?

Yes, you can! Thanks to digital learning, you can take a CCNP online class from anywhere—even your home. You don’t need to travel or sit in a classroom. Just a good internet connection and the will to learn is enough.

An online class is perfect for students or working professionals who want to upgrade their skills in their free time. It also helps you learn at your own speed. You can pause, repeat, or review topics anytime.

What Happens After You Get Certified?

Once you finish your CCNP certification, you’ll find many doors open for you. Especially in companies that use multiple cloud platforms, your skills will be in high demand. You could work in roles like:

Cloud Network Engineer

Network Security Analyst

IT Infrastructure Manager

Data Center Specialist

And the best part? These roles come with good pay and long-term career growth.

Where Can I Learn CCNP?

You can take CCNP training from many places, but it's important to choose a center that gives you hands-on practice and teaches in simple language. One such place is Network Rhinos, which is known for making difficult topics easy to understand. Whether you’re learning online or in-person, the focus should always be on real-world skills, not just theory.

Final Thoughts

The world is moving fast toward cloud-based technology, and multi-cloud setups are becoming the new normal. But with more clouds come more challenges. That’s why companies are looking for smart, trained professionals who can handle the job.

CCNP training prepares you for exactly that. Whether you're just starting your career or want to move to the next level, CCNP gives you the skills to stay relevant and in demand.

With options like a CCNP online class, you don’t even have to leave your house to become an expert. And once you complete your CCNP certification, you're not just learning about networks—you’re becoming someone who can shape the future of cloud technology.

So yes, if you’re thinking about CCNP in a world that’s quickly moving to the cloud, the answer is simple: go for it.

[guerrerense]

The Inside Track por Jake Miille Photography Por Flickr: SPMW 4034 works west along the #2 track of Union Pacific’s Roseville Subdivision at Cisco. Between Soda Springs and Shed 10, the #2 track is known as the “inside track”. This track runs tight along the mountainsides to the south, making snow removal particularly challenging. If not routinely maintained by snow fighters, the #2 track can easily become impassible for larger rail cars such as auto racks or Amtrak’s Superliners. With the #2 track out-of-service for these larger railcars, Dispatcher 9 may have to resort to single tracking between Truckee and Switch 9 during the winter months. Union Pacific’s snow fighters often use tandem spreaders to clear the tracks. Here, the SPMW 4034 is in the lead. The SPMW 4034 will cut the inside bank and spread the snow onto the #1 track. Shortly after the 4034 passes, the SPMW 4032 will proceed down to the #1 track and spread snow towards the downhill side. Any snow that can’t be cleared by the spreaders will be handled by the “snow cats” (piston bullies). Detailed coordination is critical for successful snow fighting operations. It takes hard working crews and specialized equipment to ensure trains can safely traverse the Donner Pass Route during the winter months. SPMW 4034 — Spreaders — Cisco, California March 6th, 2024 jakemiillephotography.com

[kitkatt0430]

Caitlin & Cisco fake dating AU. In which Cisco just uses Caitlin as his fake girlfriend to avoid dealing with his family because they like her more than him and he's still working on trying to get his brother away from their crappy parents. And Caitlin uses Cisco as a fake boyfriend to avoid dealing with explaining to her mother that aromanticism is a thing and Ronnie was the only person she'd ever felt anything remotely like romance for and he's unfortunately quite dead these days. Her mom would never understand, never mind that Carla never moved on from her own husband, Caitlin's gotta have 'somebody' in her life.

Anyway. No one who is aware of what's really going on expects them to hook up in the end because they all know better. (Julian never learns that they're not dating because Caitlin was flattered but not interested and it was easier to say she was dating Cisco than deal with a guy who hears 'I'm single' and thinks that he's still got a chance. Ralph is later confused for a bit but thinks it's actually a great setup once he figures it out.)

So when Cisco starts dating Kamilla he realizes that a.) he has to stage breaking up with Caitlin for his family before presenting them with Kamilla (Dante being in the know now thinks this is hilarious), b.) resign himself to the fact his parents will never forgive him for breaking up with Caitlin for Kamilla and he has unwittingly sabotaged Kamilla's chances for his parents to like her (at least Dante is moving out soon and if his parents are too awful he can just... finally cut contact with them), and c.) explain all of this to Kamilla because he does intend to keep being Caitlin's fake boyfriend for dealing with Caitlin's mother.

Kamilla hears all of this, thinks it's hilariously adorable, and presents the 'obvious' solution. Tell Cisco's parents - and Caitlin's mother for bonus entertainment points - that they're all dating. Kamilla likes Caitlin a lot, this could be a lot of fun. Her own parents can be told the actual truth because they're laid back and fiercely enjoy passive aggressively screwing with shitty parents anyway, so they'll be 100% backing the fake poly relationship all the way.

Cisco - I love you.

Kamilla - I know. :D

Caitlin loves this idea very, very much. And is looking forward, for a change, to her mom's next visit.

I could see this going the QPR route eventually because I do love Caitlin ~ Cisco, but it doesn't have to. It's just... such a fun little idea I had and needed to share immediately.

[icedteaandoldlace]

Caitlin for the character bingo!

Funnily enough, she was my least favorite character when I started watching the show, and I was neutral about her for a while, until season 4, which was when I started to actually like her. I kinda felt like she was just there to be the tropey uptight-smart-girl character at first, and while I don't feel that way about her anymore (even when rewatching the earlier seasons), it did take me some time to warm up to her. I think part of that had to do with my thinking she would inevitably get a romantic storyline with Barry and/or Cisco, and I was dreading seeing that happen (with Barry because I didn't care, and with Cisco because I value their friendship too much as-is to want it to be anything else), but once it became clear that the show wasn't gonna go either of those routes with her, I was able to relax and start to appreciate her more.

So the funny thing about Caitlin—I love her, but I dislike so many of her storylines. She spent three seasons being wrapped up in love interest subplots, and when she finally broke out of that cycle, everything started to revolve around Frost. Which wasn't a bad thing at first, but instead of seizing the opportunity to give Caitlin more development, instead the show did the exact opposite, and took away parts of her personality, history, and role on the team, and attributed them to Frost instead, whom they had decided was now a completely different person and not a repressed side of Caitlin anymore. And while there are things I love about them being separate characters, that retcon seriously screwed Caitlin over by limiting her screen time and stunting her potential for more growth (plus it kinda felt like the writers were more interested in Frost, and they didn't know what to do with Caitlin once they'd amputated Frost's personality traits from her, so to speak).

Her treatment in season 8 had a lot to do with why I didn't even watch season 9. She became the character I was most invested in after Cisco left (which I was not expecting), and I just had zero interest in watching things get worse and worse for her.

I hesitated to mark off "the fandom is so mean", because she IS a major fan favorite, but at the same time it's...complicated. You have the section of Iris stans who hate her just to spite Snowbarry shippers, and you have the Frost fans who consider Caitlin to be the lesser/boring Snow, and then there's the chunk of Snowbarry shippers who...don't actually seem to really appreciate her, they just want her with Barry because she's not Iris?? (not black, that is) So like she's simultaneously overrated for qualities she doesn't have, and under-appreciated for qualities she does have.

And of course, I would be remiss not to mention @frosty-the-killer-doll's near-constant cheerleading, endearing me to Caitlin even further.

[vexic929]

i have a question and it's very random, i hope it's okay, but would you have any hcs for what Eobard did during those 15 years of being stuck in the past and waiting for Barry to become Flash, like how he adapted to being Harrison Wells, and stalking Barry, and Star Labs, or anything you'd have in mind for that?

oh this is absolutely okay I love to speculate on what characters did off-screen!

I definitely think that Eobard kept tabs on Barry, albeit he had to go a different route than his usual methods, no speedster shenaniganary, no being the thing that goes bump in the night at least not that Eobard - he most definitely stalked Barry to an extent even at the risk of getting caught (I have a headcanon that he used his influence to his advantage and visited Barry's school campus several times under the guise of meeting potential employees or giving talks or something specifically so that he could creepily watch Barry pretty much all day)

that said, there was a lot of work he needed to do to get S.T.A.R. Labs and Harrison Wells to the level of scientific achievement needed to build the particle accelerator in the first place - I don't think it was too difficult for him being a genius from the literal future but I almost think that would be worse because he'd be bored and bored Eobard sounds dangerous (I mean he definitely was bored, the man wrote a whole autobiography as Harrison Wells)

then again, bored Eobard is probably why he even got so close to Cisco, Caitlin, and Hartley; granted if he didn't think it was necessary he probably wouldn't have bothered, but I also doubt it was in his initial plans

[shrinkthisviolet]

5+ headcanons: role swap au, for The Flash. Any characters! (I think I've probably asked you about Flash role swap aus before lol but I love them)

To my knowledge, you haven’t, at least not in an ask 😂 and I’m happy to do it! For this, I’m gonna do a Barry and Iris roleswap:

Iris is the one in love with Barry since they were 10, while Barry is the oblivious one. In Iris’s defense, she did plan to tell him, but there was always a reason to wait—fear of things changing being the main one. And then things did change—Barry’s mom died, and he came to live with her and her dad—they were still close, but Barry’s life had been changed in such an awful way. And then…well, then Iris definitely couldn’t tell him. She couldn’t put that on him. Maybe…maybe years from now

Skip ahead to the night of the accelerator explosion: Iris is psyching herself up to finally tell Barry. They’re adults, they’ve been living their own lives for years, Barry in particular moved out of the house a couple years ago…the timing is perfect. Except, Barry’s not getting it, and then her laptop gets stolen…and a few crazy events later, Barry gets struck by lightning and sent into a coma

Iris doesn’t date Eddie—at least, not seriously. They go on a couple dates, but they both realize it’s not clicking for them. Eddie is very sweet and understanding…and during the course of s1, he sorta tries to play matchmaker for them, with mixed results 😂 Barry, for his part, doesn’t seriously date anyone either—not because of being hung up, but because of his whole Flash thing. He dates Felicity and Linda for a little while, but it doesn’t last. And, crucially, he’s not dating anyone when the tidal waves hits

Why is this important, you ask? Well…waterfront kiss, that’s why! No cheating means we gets to keep it 🥰 and it takes on an extra layer here: Iris’s confession takes Barry aback, but he realizes he loves her too, and they kiss (the words are pretty much identical to canon). And then Barry time travels. And suddenly…oh no, he’s the only one who remembers. He tries to ask Iris about it, but ofc she doesn’t remember doing it and laughs him off nervously. But Barry knows she has a crush on him now (and suddenly, her flirting with the Flash takes on a whole new meaning that makes him blush)

Not totally sure what the impetus for her finally confessing would be—maybe Cisco vibes her by accident and sees the kiss and tells her about it? Maybe Barry himself earnestly tells her about the kiss and gently explains that her feelings are reciprocated? Maybe, perhaps, he loops her in, dropping the discussion of romantic feelings, and them both seeing the name on the byline gets Iris to confess. Idk. Something

I’m glad the show didn’t go this route tbh, if only because I’m sure Iris would’ve gotten way more hate than she already has (she’s very clearly the romantic initiator here, and that would put people off, and at least the way canon does it, Iris is framed as the desirable it girl, which I prefer). And yet…I find this so, so compelling 👀

send me an au and i’ll share 5+ headcanons about it!

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